Bug#764715: gnome-shell: Missing dependency on mutter

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 important

Am 10.10.2014 um 15:15 schrieb Christian Weeks:
> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.14.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Mutter is now shipping a "restart helper" program that provides for a "smoother"
> gnome shell restart experience. Gnome-shell 3.14 doesn't depend on mutter, just
> libmutter, and so the helper is not available by default.
> 
> Oct 09 14:17:42 xx gnome-session[4990]: Window manager warning: Failed to start restart helper: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/mutter/mutter-restart-helper" (No such file or directory)
> 
> Installing mutter allows the shell to do the "pretty" restart.
> 
> Restart helper added here:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2014-July/msg04103.html

Thanks for the bug report.
While mutter should be installed in a default GNOME installation, adding
this dependency explicitly also to gnome-shell looks correct.

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